Gone are the days when fixed income investors could buy Brazil sovereign debt at double digit yields.
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The opening shot came in 1975 when fixed commissions on securities issues were abolished in America, opening the cosy world of stockbroking up to competition.
Perhaps the time has come for a date to be set for obliterating all the old boundaries, a sort of telecom version of Wall Street's big bang more than 20 years ago, when fixed commissions were abolished.
When we fixed up the interview we hadn't accounted for the, many would say admirable, laid back approach some Africans take to life.
When Dharavi is fixed up, "more buyers will come to my workshop, " he said.
He said numbers of potholes meant they could not be fixed when reported and urged people to be patient.
It is an historical accident: employers began offering health insurance during the second world war as a way of attracting workers at a time when wages were fixed by the government.
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European leaders are meeting to discuss whether Italy will soon need a bailout, shocking traders who thought the whole euro mess was fixed when Greece secured its second bailout a few days ago.
By coincidence, the central bank on Monday approved a new rule designed to protect consumers from deceptive lending practices, including advertising practices that say interest rates are fixed when in fact they're not.
We haven't seen any engineers and I don't know when it will get fixed.
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When the dollar was fixed to gold between the mid- 1940s and 1971, the price of oil barely fluctuated.
If they would have fixed things when they still had 70% of the market where would they be today?
When it comes to fixed income and interest rates, Ben Bernanke is the biggest thorn in the side of retirees.
An even more devastating pattern emerges when we look at fixed income.
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Periods when gold supplies were fixed meant that a stable stock of money had to finance increasing amounts of transactions as the economy grew, so prices fell.
What Ramsey proved is that the most economically efficient way to set prices when producers have high fixed costs and low marginal costs is (roughly) to soak the rich.
Secondly, sex offenders will have to notify the authorities whenever they are living in a household with a child under the age of 18 and they will be required to notify the authorities weekly as to where they can be found when they have no fixed abode.
So this isn't all fixed in stone when you talk about the Latino, the Hispanic vote.
By comparison, JPMorgan Chase reported a 7.9% drop in fixed income revenue when it reported fourth-quarter earnings last week.
Tumblr says its team is "working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible, " though there is no timeline for when it'll be fixed.
Tayside Police issued more than 3, 000 fixed penalty notices when they piloted the scheme between April 2005 and April 2006, with only 1% of offenders requesting court appearances.
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The corporate world is ending a five-year binge on capital spending, which has left it with a much higher ratio of fixed costs than when we started this recovery in 1991.
Most adults were fixed social quantities when they first got their hands on a text-capable mobile device, and while their ability to have a face-to-face conversation may have eroded in recent years, it's pretty well locked in.
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On a practical level in large organizations, leads going awry or out of channel communications happen frequently, but lets focus on how it could be fixed, especially when you consider that some of this system is already automated.
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They always establish a timeline with follow up for when the problem will be fixed and make sure that progress is communicated throughout the process so everyone feels the urgency and care with which they are correcting the problem.
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The structure of the charges can vary depending on payment method (by direct debit, pre-payment meter, or credit transfer such as cheque), on whether it is an internet-only tariff, which part of the country the customer lives in, if the deal involves a fixed price, when the deal was launched, how long it lasts, and so on.
In theory, when interest rates are dropping, PE ratios should be expanding because fixed income becomes less competitive with equities when interest rates are low.
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Time is fixed and the learning is variable, when what we need is a system that makes time variable so that the learning can be fixed.
Commercial providers only get paid a fixed sum of money when they meet performance-based milestones.
So consider now what happens when you toss these unknowns into fixed, predictable business processes.
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